CARSON CITY — Poor hand hygiene is emerging as the No. 1 factor in the spread of COVID-19 in skilled-nursing homes and similar communal care facilities in Nevada, according to initial data state ...

When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

ATLANTA, GA / ACCESS Newswire / October 28, 2025 / GP PRO, a division of Georgia-Pacific and leading innovator of advanced dispensing and smart monitoring solutions, has released the results of its ...

GP PRO’s latest survey, “Understanding the Hands that Care for Others,” shares the hand hygiene experiences of 100 nurses working in acute and long-term care/skilled nursing facilities. New research ...

Objectives: Health professional burnout has been associated with suboptimal care and reduced patient safety. However, the extent to which burnout influences hand hygiene compliance among health ...

On April 9 at PruittHealth-Carolina Point, a nursing home on the Orange-Durham border, an aide walked from room to room, passing out lunch trays. In between, a state inspector observed, the aide did ...

Hospitals are ramping up their focus on hand hygiene compliance to prevent infections and improve patient safety, new data from The Leapfrog Group suggests. In 2020, when Leapfrog began collecting and ...

WTAM-AM: Shanina Knighton, an instructor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, reminded listeners that the best defense against coronavirus, or any disease, is simple hand washing.